RUN FOR UNITY

RUN FOR UNITY

जाति और धर्म भेद के कारण हमारी प्रगति में रुकावट नहीं आनी चाहिए। हम सब भारत मां की संतानें हैं। हमें अपने देश को प्यार करना चाहिए और आपसी प्यार और सहयोग से अपना भविष्य संवारना चाहिए।

Birth anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel as 'Rashtriya Ekta Diwas' (National Unity Day) Oct 31 every year to pay tributes to the efforts made by Patel to unite India TO KNOW DETAIL ABOUT PLZ VISIT http://pib.nic.in/ektadiwas15/

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN, REGIONAL OFFICE, BHUBANESWAR: Dushera Greetings

KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA SANGATHAN, REGIONAL OFFICE, BHUBANESWAR: Dushera Greetings: The Deputy Commissioner conveys Dushera Greetings to all the members of KVS family. The staff and students of KV's can have a nice...

Online Information

A personalized learning resource for all ages Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. We've also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content. Free tools for parents and teachers We’re working hard to ensure that Khan Academy empowers coaches of all kinds to better understand what their children or students are up to and how best to help them. See at a glance whether a child or student is struggling or if she hit a streak and is now far ahead of the class. Our coach dashboard provides a summary of class performance as a whole as well as detailed student profiles. visit-https://www.khanacademy.org/

O Labs

About Online Labs The Online Labs is an educational initiative pioneered by Amrita CREATE, the Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education at Amrita University in partnership with CDAC, Mumbai; under a research grant from the Department of Information Technology, Government of India. The lab hosts experiments in Physical, Chemical and Biology sciences for the students from classes 9 to 12 with content aligned to the NCERT/CBSE curriculum. Recently OLabs has also included Mathematics and English lessons. The online labs are hosted at www.olabs.co.in. Access to Online Labs is free for Schools upon registration. About CDAC The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mumbai, is the premier R&D organization of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications & Information Technology (MCIT) for carrying out R&D in IT, Electronics and associated areas. It currently focuses on areas like Artificial Intelligence, Open Source Software Development, Educational Technology, Disaster Recovery, e-Governance and so on. About Amrita University Amrita University, one of India's leading research and teaching universities, was founded by the world-renowned humanitarian leader, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi, Amma. Today with 5 campuses at Coimbatore, Amritapuri, Kochi, Bangalore and Mysore, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham has emerged as one of the fastest growing institutions of higher learning in India making our challenges unique due to its multidisciplinary, geographically distributed campuses. About CREATE@Amrita The Center for Research in Advanced Technologies for Education (CREATE) is an educational technology initiative pioneered by Amrita University. CREATE @ AMRITA applies innovative digital solutions to provide accessible and affordable educational technologies for all. We aim to improve the quality of education for all with innovative solutions that integrate research and practice. About Department of IT The Department of Information Technology (DIT) is undertaken by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India. Among its varied activities to transform India into a developed nation and an empowered society, it plays a major role in innovation and research & development. As part of this, it provides support in creating innovative infrastructure in emerging areas of technology and for the development of learning skills and knowledge network.

Digital India Week 1st July to 7th July 2015

free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS

Free and open-source software (F/OSS, FOSS) or free/libre/open-source software (FLOSS) is software that is both free software and open source. It is liberally licensed to grant users the right to use, copy, study, change, and improve its design through the availability of its source code.^[1] This approach has gained both momentum and acceptance as the potential benefits^{[clarification needed]} have been increasingly recognized by both individuals and corporations.

In the context of free and open-source software, free refers to the freedom to copy and re-use the software, rather than to the price of the software. The Free Software Foundation, an organization that advocates the free software model, suggests that, to understand the concept, one should "think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer".

FOSS is an inclusive term that covers both free software and open source software, which despite describing similar development models, have differing cultures and philosophies.^[5] Free software focuses on the fundamental freedoms it gives to users, whereas open source software focuses on the perceived strengths of its peer-to-peer development model.^[6] FOSS is a term that can be used without particular bias towards either political approach.

Free software licences and open source licenses are used by many software packages. While the licenses themselves are in most cases the same, the two terms grew out of different philosophies and are often used to signify different distribution methodologies.

WHAT IS ANDROID DEVICE??? THE NEW TECHNOLOGY USED IN MOBILE / SMARTPHONE.....

Android gives you a world-class platform for creating apps and games for Android users everywhere, as well as an open marketplace for distributing to them instantly. Android powers hundreds of millions of mobile devices in more than 190 countries around the world. It's the largest installed base of any mobile platform and growing fast—every day another 900,000 user’s power up their Android devices for the first time and start looking for apps, games, and other digital content.
Android is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. It is developed by the Open Handset Alliance, led by Google, and other companies. Android has a large community of developers writing applications ("apps") that extend the functionality of the devices. Developers write primarily in a customized version of Java. Apps can be downloaded from third-party sites or through online stores such as Google Play (formerly Android Market), the app store run by Google. In October 2011, there were more than 500,000 apps available for Android, and the estimated number of applications downloaded from the Android Market as of December 2011 exceeded 10 billion.
Android became the world’s leading smartphone platform at the end of 2010. For the first quarter of 2012, Android had a 59% smartphone market share worldwide, with a 331 million devices installed base and 85 million activations or 934,000 per day. Analysts point to the advantage to Android of being a multi-channel, multi-carrier OS. 
Android, Inc. was founded in Palo Alto, California, United States in October 2003 by Andy Rubin (co-founder of Danger), Rich Miner (co-founder of Wildfire Communications, Inc.), Nick Sears (once VP at T-Mobile), and Chris White..

OER IN INDIA AND WORLD

 Open Courseware is a common feature among the higher education institutes, especially in the West. Notable among these is MIT Courseware. However, higher education institutes in developing countries like India have also taken a cue from Western Institutes and started providing courseware on the Internet for the benefit of students and teachers alike. For exmple Egyankosh of IGNOU.

Following are some notable open courseware projects, which students, faculty members and researchers can make use for their studies and research.

India

• eGyanKosh: It is a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. The video lecture's are available on Youtube at: Youtube IGNOU eGyanKosh
  
• NCERT Text Books: National Council Educational Research and Training [NCERT] has provided full text access to all of its text books required for K12 students.
  
• National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning [NAPTEL]: NAPTEL's main aim is to enhance the quality of engineering education in the country by developing curriculum based video and web courses. It is an initiative of IITs and IIsc. The courses are available for access on subscription. However, most of the video lecture's are available for FREE ACCESS on Youtube at: Youtube IIT
  

International

• BBC Learning English: This website from the BBC aids people learning English, by offering help in the form of 'Words in the News', 'Quizzes', videos via YouTube etc. The teachers section loaded with activities that accompany the many different features on Learning English. In the “Downloads” section on the far right hand side of the page, learners can get the past seven days of audio, video, and text to take away. Explore the site for many more features.
  
• Carnegie Mellon Open Learning Initiative: Carnegie Mellon University offers this site full of course tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, simulations, and frequent opportunities for assessment and feedback to help you learn.
  
• Engineering Pathway: Here you can Learn, Connect, and Create high-quality teaching and learning resources in applied science and math, engineering, computer science/information technology, and engineering technology for use by K-12 and university educators and students.
  
• The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Open Courseware:OCW project provides access to content of the School's most popular courses in the field of health sciences.
  
• MIT Open Courseware: MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity.
  
• OpenLearn: The OpenLearn website gives free access to Open University course materials. This is the LearningSpace, where you'll find hundreds of free study units, each with a discussion forum.
  
• Tufts OpenCourseware: Tufts University has joined MIT in offering the world free access to certain course content online in the field of life sciences. Tufts OpenCourseWare (OCW) seeks to capitalize on the potential of the internet to eliminate borders and geographic distance as obstacles to the instantaneous exchange of knowledge and new ideas.
  
• University of California Irvine: It is a free and open digital publication of high quality university-level educational materials, often including syllabi, lecture notes, assignments and exams.
  
• University of Notre Dame Open Courseware: Notre Dame OCW is a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners throughout the world. It provides open access to the materials used in a variety of courses.
  
• Utah State Open Courseware: It is a collection of educational material used in our formal campus courses, and seeks to provide people around the world with an opportunity to access high quality learning opportunities.
• Source- info librarian

OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) IN INDIA

http://www.ncert.nic.in/NCERTS/textbook/textbook.htm

Scoop.it Makes It Simple to Publish Online Magazines

While it’s true that anyone can be a publisher in the Internet Age, it’s also true that the most commonly used tools aren’t for everyone.

Take blogging, for example, or Twitter. Over time, a significant number of people find it hard to persist in publishing over those types of platforms on any kind of regular basis.

That has created an opportunity for Scoop.it, a one-click publishing platform that allows curators to publish beautiful online magazines. The company launched publicly in November; so far, nearly three million people have tried it out.

“You are doing the work of an editor, not a writer,” explains co-founder and CEO Guillaume Decugis. “Let the web be your newsroom. There’s so much content already out there.”

Scoop.it is organized around topics as opposed to the people curating those topics. So, rather than follow a person, you follow their topic; you can even “re-Scoop” it.

http://www.scoop.it/